Archive management is essentially the management of the objects saved in the archives, above all the save files and volumes. In the case of migration and version backup, reorganizing is also required (see the sections "Reorganizing the migration archive" and “Reorganization of version backups”).
By using the HSMS statement SHOW-ARCHIVE, the archive owner can obtain information about the objects managed in the archive, i.e. optionally files, job variables, save versions and save files, and about volumes.
Nonprivileged users can use this HSMS statement with public archives to obtain information about the objects belonging to their own user ID or objects of which they are co-owners.
In SHOW-ARCHIVE, a marking function can be used to request information on individual save files and volumes when the archive summaries are output.